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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. The Importance of Reliability Engineering

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  2. The Foreward to Michael Cohen's New Book

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  3. You're doing rubber duck debugging all wrong

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  4. Earth Appears to Be Travelling Through the Debris of Ancient Supernovae

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  5. Hackers Hijack Reddit Mod Accounts to Post Pro-Trump Messages

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  6. He Was Iran’s Homegrown Tech Star. The Guards Saw a Blackmail Opportunity

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  7. Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  8. Livetweets: Epic vs. Apple Court Hearing

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  9. Gmail blocks access to custom “webview/browsers”

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  10. Ask HN: Older friends being targeted by Google ads for funerals and cemeteries?

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  11. Reddit ban users for upvoting certain posts/comments

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  12. A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from Z to Shining Z

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  13. Teen mastermind of Twitter hack was involved in fatal home invasion, say police

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  14. Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  15. When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  16. A Princess Is Making Google Forget Her Drunken Rant About Killing Muslims

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  17. How Many People in the U.S. Are Hospitalized with Covid-19? Who Knows?

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  18. Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multiplatform VB++'

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  19. Should the ICANN do something about domain squatting?

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  20. Why is YouTube auto playing Trump's attack ads on the homepage?

    9 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  21. Hong Kong man reinfected with different strain of Covid-19

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  22. Fairphone 3+, now with 48/16MP cameras and 40% recycled plastics

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  23. Problem-Solving Techniques That Work for All Types of Challenges (2017)

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  24. Ask HN: Are all analytics violating user privacy?

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  25. SpaceX now plans for 5M Starlink customers in US, up from 1M

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  26. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 – Low vs. Ultra Graphics Comparison

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  27. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive, Then Negative for Covid-19

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  28. We Analyzed 10M Pages. Here’s Where Most Fail with ADA and WCAG 2.1 Compliance

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  29. Cells solve mazes and respond at a distance using attractant breakdown

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  30. No, People Aren’t Fleeing America’s Cities for the Suburbs

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  31. Ask HN: What Stops You from Switching Remote US Only to Remote Same Time Zone?

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  32. How Silicon Valley chip pioneer MIPS landed in China

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  33. Trying to build the ultimate handheld Raspberry Pi computer [video]

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  34. “What if when your mind wanders, an implant prods you back to the task at hand?”

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  35. Gleam v0.11 Released

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  36. Chadwick Boseman Has Died

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  37. New cars can stay in their lane–but might not stop for parked cars

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  38. Ask HN: My tower defense game is almost ready to launch

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  39. The Walkman wasn't invented in Japan

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  40. The US Is Going into Hyperinflation

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  41. Apple rejects Facebook app that tells users Apple takes 30% cut

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  42. Love After Life: Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife (2017)

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  43. The Software Inflation Rate in 2020: 2.2%

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  44. Tencent: The Outsider

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  45. Things I Hate About Your Resume (From a Lawyer)

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  46. Halide (a language for fast, portable computation on images and tensors)

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  47. Brutal Rules of Email Management

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2020

  48. Celebrating Black Creators in Tech

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  49. Python or Clojure for Data Analysis?

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  50. Instagram blocks Kamalaharris.info in private messages

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  51. Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  52. Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  53. Scientists See Signs of Lasting Immunity to Covid-19, Even After Mild Infections

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  54. Samsung’s new PCI 4 drives – up to 7000 MB/s

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  55. Microsoft Edge Just Dropped These Brilliant New Features to Beat Chrome

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  56. Ask HN: 3D Modeling Tools for Woodworking/Furniture?

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  57. Generate random fake data and populate your application for easier development

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  58. Building a command line tool to help with Google searches

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  59. Trump Bans TikTok September 20

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  60. Earthquake detection and early alerts, now on your Android phone

    9 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  61. Feline coronavirus drugs inhibit SARS-CoV-2 main protease

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  62. Even Faster Mobile GPU Inference with OpenCL – The TensorFlow Blog

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  63. 100 days without Covid-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  64. Why are true and false so large?

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  65. Neuralink implant will require drilling into skull

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  66. New AI Dupes Humans into Believing Synthesized Sound Effects Are Real

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  67. NASA researchers track slowly splitting 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field

    9 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  68. Epic Games releases Fortnite for iOS build with direct payments, bypassing IAP

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  69. Sink or Swim: Snobs, Bores and Triumphs at the Royal Society of Arts

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  70. Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune Surpasses $100B

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  71. Mapped: The Anatomy of Land Use in the United States

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  72. Morrison Shelter

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  73. Amazon’s Constellation of 3,236 Satellites Has Astronomers Freaked Out

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  74. Microsoft’s TikTok buyout would cover every Five Eyes nation other than the UK

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  75. Fairphone users can buy new camera without replacing the phone itself

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  76. Facebook’s old web design will disappear in September

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  77. Total Household Debt Decreased in Q2 2020, Marking First Decline Since 2014

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  78. Historian's Cookbook: We All Scream for Ice Cream (2018)

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  79. Dutch Hackers Found a Simple Way to Mess with Traffic Lights

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  80. Set Up a Pi-Hole Ad Blocking VPN Server on Google Cloud’s Always Free Usage Tier

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  81. How to take the perfect breath: Breathing properly could change your life

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  82. Workflowy Support for Boards, with Recursion

    8 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  83. AWS Tagging Best Practices Part 2: Terraform and CloudFormation

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  84. Confessions of a Xinjiang Camp Teacher

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  85. Why does Google think the slowest animal is the sloth?

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  86. Mr Process's Wild Ride

    8 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  87. The Russian Vaccine

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  88. Nothing Works – Patreon CEO

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  89. Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  90. Shards of Truth

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  91. YouTube choose you own adventure for young kids

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  92. Coronavirus: Sweden's economy hit less hard by pandemic

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  93. The Commercial Satellite Imagery Business Model Is Broken

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  94. Having Fun with Microsoft's IoC Container for .NET Core

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  95. MP for Cambridge urges the UK government to buy ARM

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  96. U.S. Immigration Shutdown Imminent as Congress Talks Collapse

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  97. Ask HN: Did Nate Silver End Up Listening to Nassim Taleb's Critique?

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  98. Expository Programming (2006)

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  99. CA court rules Amazon can be liable for defective goods sold on its marketplace

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  100. Working from Home: Why the Office Will Never Be the Same

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2020